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Re: Body Armor Rock Sliders, 97-06 Jeep Wrangler, TJ, Rubicon

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 8:24 am
by Hoodoo Man
I was talking to Lou about this a few days ago. he did in fact hear back from Body Armor and the mfr switched to a cheaper material without telling them. Body Armor has gotten a lot of complaints as of late from people that actually wheel their jeeps that these are not holding up like they should. :roll: They are fixing the production issue and Lou is hoping he can swap the bad ones that have gotten damaged out for the fixed version. If you bought these in the past year or so get in touch with whoever you ordered them from and wait for December or so for new units to be available....

Re: Body Armor Rock Sliders, 97-06 Jeep Wrangler, TJ, Rubicon

Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 7:11 pm
by Max
I have a new pair of sliders for a TJ from Baystate Offroad. (Needs install hardware.)

Best offer.

Max

Re: Body Armor Rock Sliders, 97-06 Jeep Wrangler, TJ, Rubicon

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:19 pm
by ZAEDOCK
Holy crap! Hi Max!!! How the hell are you?

Re: Body Armor Rock Sliders, 97-06 Jeep Wrangler, TJ, Rubicon

Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:37 am
by Max
Hi Joe,
I'm out of the hospital and currently undergoing out patient PT (learning how to walk again). Not back to work yet.
Thanks for asking. Hope to see you at the meeting on the 16th.
(Can't type very well as all my fingers are not yet working.)

max

Re: Body Armor Rock Sliders, 97-06 Jeep Wrangler, TJ, Rubicon

Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:09 am
by Opie
Max wrote:I have a new pair of sliders for a TJ from Baystate Offroad. (Needs install hardware.)

Best offer.

Max

What are you looking for...gimme ballpark figure?

Re: Body Armor Rock Sliders, 97-06 Jeep Wrangler, TJ, Rubicon

Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:02 pm
by Max
Opie, PM sent. Max

Re: Body Armor Rock Sliders, 97-06 Jeep Wrangler, TJ, Rubicon

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:46 am
by del_TJ
Well I put a couple nice dents in the Body Armor rails Lou installed for me over the summer. I wasn't doing anything crazy, just trying to get up some slippery rocks on the 10/30 outing. I just emailed Lou and I'll post any updates on wheter Body Armor will issue replacements.
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Re: Body Armor Rock Sliders, 97-06 Jeep Wrangler, TJ, Rubicon

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:01 am
by ZAEDOCK
Time to weld a piece of angle on those things.

Re: Body Armor Rock Sliders, 97-06 Jeep Wrangler, TJ, Rubicon

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 1:25 pm
by dizilbdog
I have those on my Jeep they are starting to get beat up pretty bad.

Re: Body Armor Rock Sliders, 97-06 Jeep Wrangler, TJ, Rubicon

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 1:27 pm
by Carl McFly
del_TJ wrote:Well I put a couple nice dents in the Body Armor rails Lou installed for me over the summer. I wasn't doing anything crazy, just trying to get up some slippery rocks on the 10/30 outing.
holy chit those things are CRUSHED! :shock: That ain't right. I've been running my sliders for 2 years and they're scratched, but not dented. And I bought them used!

Forget who made em.... bought em off of Corey.....

Re: Body Armor Rock Sliders, 97-06 Jeep Wrangler, TJ, Rubicon

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 4:41 pm
by ChrisD
Mine are completely flatten.... feel completely ripped off!!!

Re: Body Armor Rock Sliders, 97-06 Jeep Wrangler, TJ, Rubicon

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:21 pm
by dizilbdog
Chris wrote:Mine are completely flatten.... feel completely ripped off!!!
Lou is going out to SEMA maybe he will talk to the body armor guys out there.

Re: Body Armor Rock Sliders, 97-06 Jeep Wrangler, TJ, Rubicon

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:51 pm
by Hoodoo Man
del_TJ wrote:Well I put a couple nice dents in the Body Armor rails Lou installed for me over the summer. I wasn't doing anything crazy, just trying to get up some slippery rocks on the 10/30 outing. I just emailed Lou and I'll post any updates on wheter Body Armor will issue replacements.
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that is what mine looked like at the start of the year. much worse now... Really suckee product. I hope they fix the production issues and do right by the people they shafted... I wont buy another thing from body armor now...

Re: Body Armor Rock Sliders, 97-06 Jeep Wrangler, TJ, Rubicon

Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 4:20 pm
by del_TJ
So last week I talked to Lou about the dented sliders since he sold them to me. He's still waiting to hear if Body Armor will do anything for customers stuck with the crappy rails. Lou forwarded my email to someone called Jeff Neubauer who's in charge Body Armor sales --- No Response. I went to the website and emailed the Body Armor people --- No Response. Just got off the phone with them and it was actually really helpful!

The guy who answered talked to his manager who said there was a "bad batch" of maybe 10 - 15 units that they are not capable of tracking down. They're expecting a new batch of rock sliders with the proper tubing at the end of this month and they're just going to mail me a new set at no charge. They told me to just throw away the old ones. I did have to forward them a copy of the my invoice from Elia's.

There must be a lot more than 15 bad ones out there since I've already heard of half a dozen accounts of bent tubing on their rock rails. But who cares as long as they take care of it. Here's their info.

http://www.bodyarmor4x4.com/2010/
951-808-0750

Re: Body Armor Rock Sliders, 97-06 Jeep Wrangler, TJ, Rubicon

Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 5:12 pm
by dizilbdog
Guess I need to call them mine got bashed pretty bad at the farm.